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What if Vampires were Real?  

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If vampires were real, what would our world be like? Would we be cowering in the shadows, masking our scent and donning religious symbols all over us? Would they look like what they have been designed to look like: colorless, faint, beautiful but dead?

For all we know maybe they really do exist. They're already in our systems. They're already sucking on the life blood of our economies. And the major blame of this so called "recession".

It's us.

We're the vampires of this so called fantasy. We've been sucking away the blood of the economy, hoarding it and not allowing it to flow. Our collective logical thinking brought about one big problem, the paradox of thrift! And still we won't start to let the blood flow unless we see others do so. No one will start the move. We all want to save it for ourselves. That's what we are. We are vampires in this world economy.

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Social Issues and Their Understanding By Vicky Zhuang Yi-Yin  

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Everyone says that there are tons of social issues going on. But my main issue here is do we really understand what social issues are? We say things like, "Oh, the politics is a big issue!", or "Poverty is a major social issue which needs to be tackled,", and even, "We have an identity crisis." Don't get me wrong, I'm also one of those people. But it really got me thinking, do we really understand them?

I mean we talk a lot about it. We gave it a name. But if we know that there is this thing that's called an issue, then don't you think we should have an answer by now. I mean there are scholars out there who talk about it for years, but has there been a practical response towards it so far?

Poverty, for example, being on one of the main social issues' agenda, hasn't been internationally given a proper standard yet (there are different views to go about it, and different organizations and even countries have their own definition, A Dollar A Day is one of the most basic definitions used to define poverty though, and I'm sticking to that for now). Despite being defined 'A Dollar A Day', many find this standard as not possible to be the same for every country - which I believe is true, in most manners. If we know poverty is an issue all over the world, why don't we first define it comprehensively, find a base line to start off with. I'm not an expert, but it doesn't take an expert to understand that we need a starting line in order to fish out the solution to a problem.

Why is it that we just point out problems and not the solutions? Is it our nature to play the blame game? Most of us say, (another example), "If the politics of a country is stable, only then the economy will be stable". My friend, could you tell me how the politics of a country could become stable, instead of just ranting on a subject? I would just like to know one more thing and that is how do we understand an issue?

Do we look at an issue from just one point of view or from different sources and schools of thoughts? What is it that needs to be done? I don't think I can come up with a conclusion for this one. I'm just saying what's pouring out of my mind, and I think this is fairly good for me so far.


Another rant ended... by Vicky Zhuang Yi-Yin

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Should Kids be Fighting Our Wars? By Vicky Zhuang Yi-Yin  

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Well, I really don't know much about wars yet. But I do know that in some places, even in today's world, there are young children who are fighting wars for their country. Is it because they want to do it themselves? Or are they forced to wield a weapon against other soldiers who maybe more experienced in battle then themselves?

For me, the definition of a child is someone who has not yet reached maturity, who is supposed to carefree and most importantly the one whom should be protected. They are not the ones to protect us. Imagine hiding behind a child, I can see the humiliation in that. To push a child to protect oneself is the most cowardly act anyone can think of committing.

I am thinking of writing more about this topic, but first since I have done no research on it, I will not say much except for what I feel is wrong about having a juvenile hold a gun and kill someone. Where do they dump the child's innocence? What happens once a child has seen the evils of society at such a young age? It just doesn't seem right at all. This was the reason why I wrote the poem Porcelain Child and Little Mindless Soldier (which I will post a little later, although it is on StoryWrite.com), from my own opinions of this topic.

Let's get together and be the ones to protect the ones who actually need us: the children. Give them the life that children deserve, a happy one. No one wants to reflect on an extremely harsh childhood, we all know that by now. So let's get together.

By Vicky Zhuang Yi-Yin

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